2016,

Art-Lab Berlin im iPhonedoctor

2016, 2022,

2012

Perleberger Straße

60

Berlin

10559

artlabberlin.wordpress.com

For many decades Berlin has developed a lively, diverse, and independent way of producing culture and counteracting government decisions, based on, local, generous, and enthusiastic, but also worried, social communities that exchanged resources and ideas within a larger political debate. The city became a “natural” shelter and fertile environment for dissidents, artists, political refugees, and immigrants with any background also due to the need to overcome a traumatic past full of human generated atrocities that are still present in people memories and behaviour.Ist eine Arbeit, die zur Ehre gereicht, denn moralisch und überhaupt besser als eine, die dazu noch Geld generiert? Sagt denn die künstliche Trennung von ehrenamtlich/nicht kommerziell und kommerziell nicht eigentlich Geld = schlecht. Es kann aber durchaus dazu dienen, ein wie auch immer gestaltetes konzeptuelles Programm zu realisieren. Kann denn in dieser Welt, wie sie sich heute knallhart darstellt, überhaupt dauerhaft behauptet werden, eine prekäre Lebenssituation sei erstrebenswert und eine Abkopplung vom Monetären möglich? Wird nicht dadurch erst der vorgezeichnete Weg systemisch gangbar gemacht, in einer Doktrin aufzusteigen und die schlechten Zeiten hinter sich zu lassen, die später die legendär verklärten guten Zeiten sein werden?Answering this question seems to be the most difficult and an endless process for me because I have to ruminate on the past decade or so in which I have gone through Berlin as a female artist, a Korean artist, the founder and chief of an Asian contemporary art platform, and a mother. Since the very beginning, I have been interested in seeking a kind of universal identity, spanning the various backgrounds of Berlin-based contemporary artists in order to examine the question of identity as it is often perceived from the outside: according to gender, nationality, and cultural milieu. So I have created a space where the dichotomous logics about those issues could be discussed, proceeding with many projects. Above all, I had dreamt of creating a self-supporting space, based on an independent profit model. Recognizing limitations in workforce, culture, and the market of the art scene, however, I have experienced some moments of great suffering. But what has enabled me to endure those moments of suffering was not money but people, so that I would answer sincerely that a project space no longer means a physical space for me. It is a non-physical space, comprising people like artists, users and agents, or sometimes a network.